Hector the Hero of Troy

Alright I wrote another essay for english, and I'm not sure it's my best work but I think it's good. So let me know what you think.

Hector the Hero
By: Rachel Whitmer

True, strong, intelligent, caring, and honorable, all terms that describe the hero of the Trojan War. Hector of Troy, a family man, and a dominating warrior; lead an army to fight against the army of Agamemnon and Achilles. Fear seems to never cross the mind of Hector, as he marches on to face his doom, against the rage filled Achilles. Honor to Hector is an action. He shows that in each and every choice he makes to do good. And with the love of his wife and country he does his best to live and love with the passion of everyday like it’s his last.

The inspiring hero of Greece leads strength and power into a battle of uncertainty. His dear wife, supporting his endeavors and strong moral ideals. Everything he’s done in this war has been for the honor of his family, our great and noble troy, and for himself. His wife had a moment of uncertainty and in desperate attempts to save his life and make him stay with her and their son, she yelled “Reckless one, my Hector-your own fiery courage will destroy you! Have you no pity for him, our helpless son?...Pity me, please! Take your stand on the rampart here,”(p.376). But alas, she took a step back and is now supporting him, in fact she even “laughed as well,”(p.378).

Even with the concern of his loving family, Hector marches off to meet Achilles in a battle that is soon to be his last. And after a tretorous trick played by the tedious Athena, causing him to face Achilles thinking he had the force of a god behind him, he turns to face and with a grave thought prying at the back of his mind he began to realize that he had been tricked, and with his last breath he begs, “Please, return my body to troy,”(p. ). But the terrible rage of Achilles could not be tamed by the soft gentle words of a true hero. And so, our general is slain, and laid to the grave, never to return.

The end is tragic, but the beginning, and the middle is a story to look up to. It’s the life lived, and the honor earned that shows his true heroism. And if we take a break for just a moment in time we might even realize that someday this wonderful story of our long never ending war, may inspire a new generation to find the true hero’s that lie in their own societies.

Healthy Choice...really it CAN have taste :)

So I came up with some great recipes for chicken, and it's really very healthy! I know wierd huh? Yummy and healthy?? They are complete oposites! But really it's good. So here it is,
Grab a pad of paper, this is what you'll need:
1.I like to use teriyaki chicken breasts from costco and use them, I think they have a better flavor :D

2.Grab some Lime juice. Mmmmmm LIME.

3.Get a small tube of REAL bacon, bacon bits. You wont use very much, but the flavor isn't right without it. Scouts honor.

4.GARLIC!!! You can't cook without garlic. I mean who DOES THAT???

5.One RED and YELLOW/ORANGE bell pepper.

Ok so do you have your ingredients?? Don't read on until you have them. I'll wait....got them now?? ok...

YAY!! You have your ingredients! Now heres the hard part. Get out a...SAUCE PAN!!! Yay ok, now turn the stove on, and if you don't know how, then you really should not be allowed to cook. Haha. Now while your waiting for that to heat up, chop your thawed chicken into thin slices. Alright, is that done? Now throw it in the pan and let it heat up, but right as it begins to brown, throw in some LIME juice, and some bacon bits (about the size of a quarter in your palm), oh and don't forget the garlic!! :) let that all simmer in and constantly stir so it doesn't burn. Then chop up your peppers, about half of each one, and toss them in. But you want them to still be crunchy! And you know, don't be afraid to pick at the food and taste it all along the way!!

After you finish that, slide it onto a plate and serve with a favorite vegatable, and homemade whole wheat bread! It's AMAZING! And really it's easier than it sounds :)

Let me know what you thought!

Stand up

When someone questions our morals, I wonder whether we stand by and pretend that nothing happened, or if we, stand up and let people know exactly what we believe. Is our excuse that it's hard? Or maybe it's that we don't wan't to ruffle feathers. I think it's past the time to do nothing. We have to do SOMETHING. If we stand idoly by than nothing will ever get done.
Have we even set morals for ourselves? When people walk by, do they know, "hey hey thats that chick, she doesn't curse, and you better not curse around her,". Or is it more like, "Oh hey, there is that girl, that never stands up for herself, I bet we can get her to do some pretty stupid stuff,". When you walk down the hallway of your schools, do people know who you are? Or do they just think your a nobody. Are you a light or do you like to hide in the darkness.
Have you ever believed in something??? Haven't you ever just wanted to stand up and say "No. I believe in this, and no, I DON'T agree,". The real question is CAN you do that. Or are you content with sitting by and doing nothing. NOTHING. NOTHING is not GOOD. You have to stand up for something in your life. Don't let people tell you it's ok, and your just being OLD FASHIONED. YOUR NOT. That is called having MORALS. It's time each one of us define who we are. We can't be indecisive anymore. It's hurting us. One voice is heard. Because ONE voice can inspire a THOUSAND.
When I see my peers getting into things that they shouldn't, it hurts me. I wish i could help them, but it isn't my choice. Wouldn't it be so much easier to make those simple decisions before your faced with that dificult decision.
Maybe it's just me but how can we live knowing we didn't stand up for ANYTHING in our lives. I constantly am making ruffles, I think anyone that knows me, knows that I believe very strongly in many things. I may be confused a lot. I mean, I don't thing that anyone thinks more about their future than I do, and can I just say it's exaughsting(I am a terrible speller by the way)!! I never relax anymore! (Besides blogging, I love blogging!)
This is probably the most ramndom blog I have ever written, and reading it over, it really probably wont make sense to anyone but me. But I just have to say. When pressured about things, most of the time I know my response. I know what I will say. And MANN I hope you guys do too! BELIEVE IN SOMETHING. And please, do something with your life that will make a difference. People will never remember how much money you had, but they will remember what you did with that money. And even if your dirt poor, you CAN make a difference. Let NO ONE tell you, you can't do it. Because you CAN. Mann, am I ever learning that. And it might just be that I am too stuborn to learn, but, I want to do something inspiring with my life. I want to HELP people. I want people to know how wonderful they are, and I WANT them to know how special and different each one of them are. And if I make only a difference in 1 persons life, it'll truely be worth it. I know it will. Mann, the more people I meet the more I realize how wonderful each person really, really is. Each person remember, that somewhere, someone truely loves you. And Please make your life an oportunity and a chance for a better future.

TEST!!!!!!

I am freaking out again!!!! I have two tests tomorrow!!! And I can't help but stressing. :'( I'm a stress-o-holic. AH!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can't fail...I CAN'T!!! AH!!!!! ok ok, calming...AH!!!!!!!!!! Nevermind!!!!!!!! Freaking out again. AH!!!!!! ok ok...I'm good

Cookies!!!

So it seems to me that every time Elizabeth Thramer comes over to my house we make cookies. It's so rediculous. But they're soooooo GOOD! And I am pretty sure that my teachers don't mind either. I tend to share :)

It's great though. She has made the decision to be baptised a member of the church and I am so proud of her. It has made such a wonderful difference in my life and I do hope that she realizes how wonderful truth makes you feel.
Anyway, the Sister Missionaries are over at our house like every Sunday to give her a discussion so we always like to have something for them to munch on.

Today we made chocolate chip cookies but we made sugar cookies like 2 weeks ago and that was way to fun!! It was great. The dough stuck to our hands like super glue and I felt like I stuck to everything I touched! And the great thing about cooking cookies today was....brace yourself....we had....MATCHING APRONS!!!! AH!!!! I know I can hardly stand it. :D
Don't worry that strange look you have on your face right now. It's being recorded. Your on candy CAMERA!! haha :) yay me.
Sorry about that wierd tangent there. Another great thing about today was i got to take school pictures! Woohoo! But more importantly, I got to take a picture with the greatest grandma in the whole world. Oh did you want to see it? Well ok, since you asked so nicely.

Ya and to end this rather lengthly blog, sorry, heres my school picture! Or at least the one I like the best. Mom has a different opinion...:)

Ah isn't ^ that girl adorable!!!? I think so! Oh wait it's me! haha

My Testimony

We just got back from youth conference and I would just like to say I have never been so gald to have been raised in the true gospel of Christ. I know without a doubt that he lives and loves each one of us. I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of god and he translated the Book of Mormon as another witness of Jesus Christ. I love the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and I witness it is the one and only true church on the earth today. And for anyone who doubts it, Read the Book of Mormon. It is true. I have never believed that more than I do now. And I am so lucky to live in a family and in a place where I can stand for what I believe in so strongly.

OCD and perfection

This past week I have been feeling as if I can't do anything the way I want to. Have you ever had one of those days where it feels like no matter how hard you try, you can't do anything right? Ya well imagine that for a week and you can imagine my stress level.

I know that I shouldn't stress myself out about little things, but I can't help it. Have you ever just wanted something to be absolutely perfect? Like, I don't know, example: You have been working on this painting for like 2 months and you love it, but then you keep picking it apart until you hate it again, and then you just keep working and working and working, until you can look at it again and say, "There is absolutely nothing wrong with this picture." But you know what I've learned this week? It might be a perfect picture, but it isn't art anymore. It's just a stupid picture someone spent 2-3 months outta their lives on that ya, might be perfect, but is a little boring. I begining to feel the same way about school, and writting and I'm not quite sure, but I feel a little bit of everything. I'm not this great scientist or some amazing mathmatician. I'm not the greatest writer or the famous Historian, but I am me. And taking these hard classes and working as hard as I can is just a pit stop for me. And I hope that maybe someday when I get through this (if I get through this) I can help other people realize that they are great the way they are. And the first step of perfection is making mistakes.

Anyway so back to my OCDness. I didn't sleep at all last night because I had freaked myself out about this essay I've been re-writting and re-writting and re-writting and then I hadn't finished all my math, and I couldn't sing the songs in choir right, and on and on and on....and then about 4 or 4:30am I fell asleep, and didn't make it to seminary in the morning because I was way to tired!! I hated that feeling! I feel totally jipped! From sleep and seminary and it seems like everything. So when I walked into my former math teachers room this morning and said "I think I am OCD.", he just started laughing at me and replied "I've only been telling you that for a year and a half!" which made me laugh, even though I was about /\ that close to falling asleep.

This all boils down to my reslove however. I have resolved that I can't be perfect, and that I'm not going to kill myself trying. I'm going to try and just cool off for a bit, and maybe if I'm lucky, catch up on some sleep. The only thing that is keeping me going right now is the cookies my friend Breanne keeps feeding me to keep me awake. Thank goodness for friends is all I have to say. And besides that I've just got one last thought. Loosing sleep over things really doesn't help anything, trust me. All it does is make things worse. It's really true.

Wish me luck! I have to stay awake for like 3 more periods and for Cross Country...haha. Ya, that'll be interesting...